Comments on: Big Changes Ahead: American Airlines Vows To Shake Up Partner Rewards

By: Doug

Doug — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 04:44:43 +0000

JAL business awards are widely available right now, often with 4 seats at 60k AA miles each.

By: glenn t

glenn t — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 00:05:32 +0000

It was a running joke for the last few years that whenever Qantas announced some screw-over of their FrequentFlyer customers as an “enhancement” it was always quite the opposite.
Other airlines. coming late to the game, seized on this to dress up their own deceptions and bad news.
Due to widespread public derision this chimera seems to have been shown the door in 2024. Good riddance!

By: Jean Luc

Jean Luc — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 22:27:45 +0000

@Jason Brandt Lewis That was an excellent deal! Unfortunately it’s fairly uncommon. For example, I’m looking to book flights from Eastern Europe to Boston, seven months from now, and there’s no partner availability. Same for November flights from Italy to Boston. Also, in your case, you will be flying AA across the Atlantic, that’s why the taxes are very reasonable. If it was BA, they’d have asked for $300-400 if leaving from Europe, and a lot more ($1000 ?) if leaving from USA.

Gary, I agree with you that AA can provide excellent value for partner awards, esp. for Asia, Middle East etc. Not Europe, in my experience. I live in Boston and the availability on AA for Iberia flights to/from Europe is very poor. BA is the same and they charge enormous fees, as you know very well. Finnair doesn’t fly to BOS.

By: jeff

jeff — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 21:06:41 +0000

I have been with aa advantage since it started, it continually gets worse. I want to scream when the flight attendants try to push the aviator card by saying you get 40,000 miles which is like a free flight….yes, if you connect 3 times and arrive at night on a domestic flight. I do not say anything as I know they get $50 for every app that a person fills out, and they work hard for the jobs, I am
up to almost 4 million ff miles on aa, which will get me about 5 flights, compared to 40 intl biz flights in the past. AA, I will forsake EASIER if you go back to how it used to be .

By: Jason Brandt Lewis

Jason Brandt Lewis — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 19:48:49 +0000

@Jean-Luc —> Simply presented in the FWIW mode…

Just last week I booked a flight using American AAdvantage miles: FCO-LHR-JFK for 57,500 miles in Business. The first leg was on BA; the second on AA. Certainly AA is not the greatest in J across the Atlantic, but for 57.5k…and my total cash out-of-pocket was only $96.80 (USD)

By: Wa

Wa — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 18:55:51 +0000

Thanks, but no thanks AA, on any given day try to book a flight to Europe without paying a ridiculous fuel surcharge on a partner and zero available seats on AA metal.

By: Aleks

Aleks — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 18:43:57 +0000

@gary Business class to Japan for 60,000 AA? Where do you see that now?
It’s long been gone, with awards from the East coast is even more devalued at 80,000 miles. And good luck finding JAL flights at this level, with most AA metal awards cost 2-3 times of that.

By: JimC

JimC — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 18:08:14 +0000

Well they better do something about the outrageous number of miles they are now charging for first class awards. Flights from the west coast to the east coast are now generally priced at 100,000 miles one-way unless you take an overnight flight. That is ridiculous and is just a recent change.

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 16:33:32 +0000

Constant tinkering, almost always negative.

When will someone create an app so members can enter the time they spend on all this and the benefits received. The hourly return would surprise many.

« Free travel ».

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 15:53:04 +0000

Get ready for 500k skypesos….errr AA miles to Europe!

I wonder how much longer the over-inflated US3 will even pretend to offer partner awards.
When you manufacture so many miles (credit cards, obscene dollar-based earnings for OPM flyers), the inflation was bound to catch up with unsustainable pricing like 70k in biz to Africa.